Marco Arment Quotes

Every day in America, about 25,000 people buy a quarter-inch drill. But nobody in America wants a quarter-inch drill. What they want are holes.

Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.

Everybody else, including the rich people, are willing to pay more. They want to pay more.

It had always made sense to me to build a business based on what people really wanted, rather than guess what we thought they might want.

I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.

I am just a businessman, giving the people what they want.

A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.

Everything is about consumerism. If there's money to be made, there will be an audience and people will feel empowered and I truly believe that women haven't fully tapped into their potential as a market.

If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily a well-defined market to pay people.

I find it very annoying when people want to sit next to each other at a booth.

The question is, once you have this idea, is this enough? Is it something people would actually switch just to have?

Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.

It isn't the consumers' job to know what they want.

Sometimes when you love people, you want to believe they're good.

You can't reward people who don't want to work with more money than they would make while they were working.

You want the film to be critically successful - you certainly want the film to be financially successful so that you can...well, because that's how movies like this are made, you know, they need to make money. But as a director, you can only make the movie that you want to make.

I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what people want.

Nobody wants to buy sour milk.

Value is not determined by those who set the price. Value is determined by those who choose to pay it.

If no one consumes these products, people will stop roducing them. They will not build it if you didn't come.

To make a product, to market an idea, to come up with any problem you want to solve that doesn't have a constituency with an otaku, is almost impossible... There's a hot sauce otaku, but there's no mustard otaku.

Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries.

History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.

Get clear on what you want. Then find the people to support you to get it.

It's not that people want too much, it's that they want too little.